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WorksheetsMiddle Ages and Renaissance Music
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What texture is the earliest Gregorian Chant?
Monophony
Polyphony
Heterophony
Homophony
The Middle Ages was between what years?
450-1450
1450-1600
1650-1750
1750-1820
The musical line that supports the melody
harmony
melody
polyphony
accompaniment
When music has multiple layers that are equally important
monophony
homophony
polyphony
heterophony
The most prominent or noticeable line
accompaniment
melody
harmony
consonance
When music has a single line or layer
monophony
homophony
polyphony
heterophony
How the notes in music work together
melody
harmony
accompaniment
polyphony
This invention revolutionized the way that books and music were distributed
organum
education
printing press
patronage
The oldest complete composition with notation and lyrics was called
Dies Irae
Seikilos Epitaph
Pope Marcellus Mass
Sacred Epitaph
Halfway through the Middle Ages, choirs began adding a second line to Gregorian chant that was called...
patronage
education
madrigal
organum
What is a traveling poet and musician who makes their living off of performing in the Renaissance called?
Prodigal
Impresario
Troubadour
Circus King
Renaissance courts would entertain themselves by doing this while listening to music.
Eating
Dancing
Fighting
Sleeping
What is the loudness or softness between phrases or notes called?
Ostinato
Style
Dynamic
Genre
What term refers to a composer matching what happens in the music to the words?
Word Painting
Polyphonic
Adaptation
Secular
Which instrument was not commonly used in the Renaissance?
Lute
Piano
Harpsichord
Organ
What was Hildegaard of Bingen's occupation (other than composer)?
Teacher
Instrumentalist
Troubadour
Nun
What are Madrigals usually about?
Love
Death
The Church
Ancient Mythology
During the Renaissance, church leaders decided that sacred music was getting too hard to understand and asked composers to keep their music...
Real
Simple
Complicated
Loud
During the Renaissance, people's focus turned from the church to ancient literature and what?
Dancing
Greek tombstones
Mythology
Gregorian chant
What does the chant melody named "Dies Irae" translate to?
Day of Wrath
Day of Death
Day of Funerals
Death to All
Instruments were not used in the church until 1100AD because they associated them with what?
Pagan worship
Court dances
The Dies Irae
Love Songs
Large courts would hire as many as ____________ instrumentalists for their parties.
Thirty
Fifty-five
Seventy
One hundred
